All language subtitles for 4. Cut tab - Tools Cut Tab Kolder Creative

So the cut tab gives us access
to a handful of tools

that allow us to very quickly
make changes to the clips in our timeline.

Let me show you what I'm talking about.

So if I go to my preview window

right here in the bottom left corner,
we have this tools button.

If I click it, we're shown
a bunch of different tools here

that we can use
to modify our selected clip.

So the first one here
is the Transform tool.

So with this tool selected,
we can change things like the zoom width,

the zoom height, and by default
these are locks together.

So as I change one,
it will change the other.

But we can uncheck that little lock and
then we can change them each individually.

Something I rarely do.

But it's good to know
that that is an option.

We're also able to push things
to the right and left.

Also up and down here, we can also rotate.

We're also able
to change the pitch of the image and the.

These are pretty much
the same kind of changes

we can also make in the inspector here
under video.

But with the tools here, we're able to
make those changes quicker, in my opinion.

And we also don't even have to have
the inspector window open.

We can keep that closed
and just make the changes right here.

We're also able to flip the image
on either axis, the X or Y axis here.

And if you ever want to reset,

we can just press this reset button
right here

and it brings us back to normal.
Next to transform,

we have crop, which allows us
to crop the image however we want.

We can also change the feather of the edge
of the cropping, which is cool.

Just like that.
And of course we can reset it as well.

So next to the crop tool,
we have Dynamic Zoom,

which is probably my favorite tool
within the cut tab.

Let me show you guys how it works.

So if I click on Dynamic Zoom,
we are shown two different rectangles

and basically the green rectangle
is our starting point

and the red rectangle is our ending point.

So if I wanted to start my clip

really zoomed
in, it'll be like a digital zoom.

It can start here
and then it would zoom out

and change the position to this end point.

So this clip isn't necessarily

the best one to show this example
because it's very long.

So I'm actually just going to reset that
and turn it off for this clip.

But what we can do is go to an earlier
clip here.

So I'll use this one, for example, down
here.

Let's turn dynamic zoom on for this clip.

So just for example
sake, let's start off pretty extreme.

So let's say we want to start off

on this skateboarders head
and then we're going to zoom out to here.

This is probably not going to look good,
but it's just, for example, sake.

So I'll go to the start of the clip,
I'll press play, and we can see that

the clip starts off super zoomed in.

It starts off here.

So we've changed the position in the zoom
to start here

and it zooms out to end there.

In this case,
not the best way to use this.

I think that that was pretty drastic.

So something a bit more realistic
would probably be a zoom in.

So we'd want to switch these rectangles
so we can either, you know,

move this one out, make it bigger,

or we can just press this button down here
which swaps both of them.

That's really awesome
and makes it really quick to do that.

So now it's going to start wide
and it's going to zoom in.

So let's
go to the start of the clip press play,

and we can see that it's slowly
zooming in over there.

I'll make it even more drastic so we can
get a better idea of what's going on.

So that's awesome.

Now, in this case, does it look amazing?

Not necessarily.

But something that filmmakers do
all the time is

they add artificial movement
to their images in posts.

It's something that I do
personally all the time

because it just makes certain shots
a lot more dynamic.

You can make it feel like the camera's
moving from left to right, up or down,

zooming in, zooming out.

But before Dynamic Zoom,
the way that we would do this

was to manually keyframe these positions,
and that would take a lot longer.

Dynamic Zoom

makes this process so much easier, and I'm
so thankful that we have this feature.

It's really cool
and I use it all the time.

So right below we have three
different presets that we can use.

So the Zoom preset, this is just the
standard one, the one that we just did.

Next to that, we have this pan preset
which allows us to pan from left to right.

So in this case, we can see
that it would pan from right to left

because the green rectangle is here.

So this is where it would start and then
it would pan over to the left over here.

And of course, we can change these.
However we want.

And next to the Pan preset,
we have the angle preset,

which would start up here in the top
right corner

and go down here to the bottom left.

Now, these are just presets,

so you can very quickly achieve
these artificial movements.

But of course you can move them around
however you want.

And next to that,
we have the button that allows us to flip

the start and end points very quickly.

Very handy.

So next to the swap button,
we have these different options

which allow us to choose

how we want the animation
to move from one frame to another.

So between these two frames,
we know that we are changing the scale

and the position of our clip.

So these basically allow us to choose
how we want the scale

and position to be animated.

Do we want it to be linear
or do we want it to be smoother?

Do we want it to ease in or ease out?

Basically, linear works
a lot of the time I'm fine with linear,

but if you want things to feel
a bit smoother,

you can choose this option in the middle
right here.

This is ease in and out.

So we can see that once I've clicked
that it's changed these points on the line

over here to show that it's going to start

moving a bit slower
and then it's going to speed up

and then it's
going to slow down at the end to.

This is great to make the transition from
one frame to the other a bit smoother.

And of course, we have the option
to only ease in and only ease out as well.

My recommendation to you
is just to experiment with those and see

which one you like the most.

I like to keep it either linear or ease
in and out, depending on the situation.

And of course, to the right,
we are able to reset all of this

by pressing that reset button.

And if we don't want to use this effect,
we can just turn it off right here with

this button.

Next to that, we have the

composite, which allows us to change
the blending mode of our image.

So with a clip like this, I wouldn't
really change the blending mode,

but if I had something like an overlay,
like a lens flare

or film grain or something,
then I would have to change the way

that it's being composited
overtop of our clip.

So I would choose something
like screen or overlay,

and next to that
we just have an opacity slider,

which we can use
to change the opacity of the clip.

Next to that,
we have the speed change tool.

So if I click that, we're able
to change the speed of our clip.

So right now, one is 100% speed.

If I change this to, let's say three,

that makes it three times as fast.

So we can see that
we're playing that back at three speed.

And next to the speed change here,
we have duration, so we could change the

length of the clip itself.
I don't really use that.

I typically just stick
to just changing the speed in here.

Now, next to speed, we have stabilization.

This allows us to stabilize
the selected clip in a timeline.

Gives us three different options here.

I'm not going to dive
into what each of these does right now,

but most of the time
I stick to perspective.

You can click Stabilize.

It's going to analyze your clip and try
to stabilize it in the best way possible.

If perspective doesn't work,
try out similarity or translation,

but most of the time,
perspective works for me.

But we're going to be diving

into what these other options are later on
in this stabilization video.

Next to stabilization,
we have lens correction, which allows us

to change any kind of distortion
that we have in our image.

This is great for clips like GoPro clips
or if you want to add distortion

to your clip, you can easily do that
by adjusting this parameter here.

We also have the analyze button here
to allow DaVinci to analyze

the selected clip
and try to fix the distortion by itself.

A lot of time it does a really good job,
especially with GoPro footage.

That's typically the only type of footage
that I need to do lens correction on.

And I
found that it does a really good job.

So next to lens correction, we have color
and there's really only one option here.

You can press Auto Color and DaVinci
will do its best to try to color

your clip in a way that it thinks
is best for the selected clip.

Is this a feature I would actually use?

Probably not in most situations,
but if you're in an extreme rush

and you just want to show a client
a preview of your footage

or something really quick

and you're working with log footage,
you can just press auto color

and just see how Da Vinci decides
to color your footage.

And a lot of the time

it does a decent job,
so it'll get you at least halfway there.

So it's good to know
that that is an option.

And one thing I want to know is
we can see that there's a little red dot

above the tools
that we've actually used for this clip.

So that's cool.

Just to know

in this case, we can see that we have made
a color change and we've also made

a speed change to we haven't reverted
that back to its original speed.

So it shows us that we have made changes
by giving us

that little red dot over there.

And next to the color tool,
we have the audio tool which allows us

to make simple changes to our audio
like volume.

But in this case
we don't have any audio on these clips,

so we don't have that option.

But it's good to know

that we have the option to make quick
audio changes in this tool right here.